On 19 December 1919 an IRA unit of 11 volunteers, including Seán Treacy, Seamus Robinson, Seán Hogan, Paddy Daly ( Leader ), Joe Leonard, Martin Savage, and Dan Breen ( who later said that the threats were not based on “ personal animosity ”) sought to ambush French as he returned from Ashtown railway station ( he was returning by train from Drumdoe ) to the Vice-Regal Lodge in Phoenix Park, Dublin.

Six IRA Volunteers, led by Paddy O ' Daly, captured a British armoured car and, wearing British Army uniforms, gained access to Mountjoy Prison.

VOCM is perhaps best known for its talk shows, including Open Line with Randy Simms, Backtalk with Paddy Daly and Night Line with Peter Soucy, where Newfoundland and Labrador-related issues are discussed with callers and emails / tweets sent to the station are read and discussed.

Musicians from the area include Denis Murphy, Julia Clifford, Paddy Cronin, Padraig O ' Keeffe, Johnny O ' Leary, Jackie Daly, Con Curtin and Donal Murphy.

On orders from Oscar Traynor, Ernie O ' Malley surrenders the garrison to Brigadier General Paddy Daly of the Free State's Dublin Guard.

On May 14, 1921, an IRA team led by Paddy Daly and Emmet Dalton mounted an attempt to rescue Sean McEoin from the prison.

The founder members were Paddy Daly ( leader ), Patrick Buckley, Mick McDonnell, Ben Barrett, James Conroy, Sean Doyle, Joe Leonard, Pat McCrea, Jim Slattery, and Bill Stapleton.

In May 1921, after the IRA's Dublin Brigade took heavy casualties during the burning of the Custom House, the Squad and the Brigade's " Active Service Unit " were amalgamated into the Dublin Guard, under Paddy Daly.

Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).

* 1941 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician

* 1983 – Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer

* 1973 – Paddy Considine, English actor

* February 27 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician

* August 1 – Paddy Chayefsky, American screenwriter ( b. 1923 )

* January 29 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer ( d. 1981 )

* Pat ' the Cope ' Gallagher – M. E. P .. Grandson of Paddy ' the Cope '.

* Paddy Kingsland ( 1970 – 1981 )

* Lester Piggott – Never Say Die ( 1954 ), Crepello ( 1957 ), St. Paddy ( 1960 ), Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Roberto ( 1972 ), Empery ( 1976 ), The Minstrel ( 1977 ), Teenoso ( 1983 )

* Griffith, Paddy A History of the Peninsular War: Modern Studies of the War in Spain and Portugal, 1808 – 14 v. 9 Greenhill Books, 1999, ISBN 1-85367-348-X.

* Paddy Hill – A location on NY-12F at the north town line.

The College library consists of four main libraries: The Old Library ( built in 1596-8 ), The Laudian Library ( 1631 – 5 ), The Paddy Room and The Law Library ( Holdsworth Room ).

* Paddy Ashdown ( 1941 – 1983 )

* Paddy Ashdown MP ( 1983 – 1989 )

Paddy Ashdown, MP ( 1989 – 2000 )

Sir Paddy Ashdown, KBE, MP ( 2000 – 2001 )

* Paddy Harrington ( 1933 – 2005 ), Irish Gaelic footballer

* Paddy Mullins ( 1919 – 2010 ), Irish racehorse trainer

* European Amateur – Paddy Gribben

*# Epsom Derby – St. Paddy

*# St. Leger Stakes – St. Paddy

In the U. S., a post-WW2 tendency toward questioning the establishment and societal norms and the early activism of the Civil Rights Movement was reflected in Hollywood films such as Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), Paddy Chayefsky's Marty and Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men ( 1957 ).

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

* Paddy McAloon ( born 1957 ), English singer, songwriter and member of the band Prefab Sprout

* Lester Piggott – Mystery IX ( 1951 ), Darius ( 1955 ), Arctic Explorer ( 1957 ), St Paddy ( 1961 ), Pieces of Eight ( 1966 ), Wolver Hollow ( 1969 ), Artaius ( 1977 )

* Lester Piggott – Pinched ( 1957 ), St Paddy ( 1959 ), Casabianca ( 1963 ), Soft Angels ( 1965 ), Royal Palace ( 1966 ), Remand ( 1967 ), Sir Wimborne ( 1975 ), Dunbeath ( 1982 )

* Noel Murless – Pinched ( 1957 ), St Paddy ( 1959 ), Casabianca ( 1963 ), Soft Angels ( 1965 ), Royal Palace ( 1966 ), Domineering ( 1969 ), Yaroslav ( 1971 ), Adios ( 1972 )

A teenage sensation, he rode his first winner of the Epsom Derby on Never Say Die in 1954 aged 18 years and went on to win eight more, on Crepello ( 1957 ), St. Paddy ( 1960 ), Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Roberto ( 1972 ), Empery ( 1976 ), The Minstrel ( 1977 ) and Teenoso ( 1983 ).

* Derby-( 9 )-Never Say Die ( 1954 ), Crepello ( 1957 ), St Paddy ( 1960 ), Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Roberto ( 1972 ), Empery ( 1976 ), The Minstrel ( 1977 ), Teenoso ( 1983 )

* Eclipse Stakes-( 7 )-Mystery IX ( 1951 ), Darius ( 1955 ), Arctic Explorer ( 1957 ), St Paddy ( 1961 ), Pieces of Eight ( 1966 ), Wolver Hollow ( 1969 ), Artaius ( 1977 )

* Paddy McAloon ( born Patrick Joseph McAloon, 7 June 1957, Durham ); vocals / guitars / keyboards

The Bachelor Party is a 1953 teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky which was adapted by Chayefsky for a 1957 film.

Of these there were three Epsom Derby wins, with Crepello ( 1957 ), St. Paddy ( 1960 ) and Royal Palace ( 1967 ).